Perform automatic searches

Using ePathway, you're able to perform some actions, in an automatized manner. The posible actions include automatic searches in some popular Biology online databses.

The details about the usage of this functionality are included in the corresponding section of this page.

Automatic BLAST searches
Each user is able to perform BLAST searches, with a given configuration that is specified just once. Currently, those searches are performed with a default configuration, which is used in most cases. That configuration is as follows: 
 * email : the current user's email
 * Job Title : empty
 * Sequence Type : dna
 * Program : blastn
 * Database <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: em_rel_pln
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Scores <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">empty
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Alignments <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">empty
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Expectation Value Threshold <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">empty

How to perform an automatic BLAST search
An automatic BLAST search can be performed in most views where a nucleotide sequence appears, e.g.: the detailed view of a gene, or the result of a BLAST search itself. In general terms, this action is available whenever a link or a field called "BLAST search" appears in any gene view.

To do the search, you only need to click the provided link. Note that sometimes the link details the specific section of the gene that is going to be used to perform the BLAST search, for example: a link that says "BLAST complete sequence" in a gene's view, will do the search using that gene's complete sequence.

After clicking the link, the behavior is the normal when doing a BLAST search using the ePathway's tool, to connect to the EBI-NCBI service, as it's detailed in Perfoming BLAST searches section of this wiki.